Social Polarization In Australia

Australia is one of the richest countries in the world. It is one of the developed countries whose unemployment rate is above 5 percent. Perkins and Angley (2003) asserted that the increasing impact of globalization, combined with a change in

This report will show an overview of the current state of the Australian economy and its management by the Federal government through examining economic indicators such as economic growth (GDP), unemployment, inflation and trade.

Unemployment is a social problem in Australia, which affects a majority of society in many ways. Not only can it cause financial debt to families, but from there it can cause family breakdowns, social isolation, shame and it can even lead to violence. The Conflict theory perspective explains how unemployment can be caused by class and power by focusing on the inequality within society. The inequality sequentially predicts that the poorer members of society struggle to find employment, to be able to get education to find suitable employment and are.

As a result of the housing boom from 2005 to 2008 this had caused prices of houses to increase around 30% within that time and I don’t think that employment incomes went up that amount. This has caused hardship in many people’s lives that have overextended themselves as well as made themselves house poor. With house prices rising up, it has made it difficult for people to be able to find affordable adequate housing to rent or to purchase. This has caused investment properties to increase in price which has also affected the

Blacktown’s economic competitiveness is vulnerable by an inadequate supply of knowledge-intensive industries and also a supply of the required labour in the local government areas. This is evident in a record of statistical data relating to the number of people in Blacktown employed in management and professional occupation. In comparison to Blacktown to the rest of Sydney, it is conveyed that Blacktown city is significantly less by reading the analysis of the employment status of people aged 18 to 24 years (as a percentage of the labour force) in

According to Enrico Moretti 's ground breaking book, “The New Geography of Jobs,” manufacturing sector companies have been superseded in the knowledge economy by innovation sector companies. While they were once the holy grail of community planners, manufacturing sector companies are no longer the ideal economic model.

The Australian economy is reliant on three key sectors: services, housing, and mining. The services sector employs the largest percentages of Australians – around 80 percent – and is responsible for approximately 70 percent of the country’s GDP (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010). With jobs in a variety of specific industries, this sector drives the success of the Australian economy. The housing sector is experiencing unprecedented growth leading to concerns over a potential asset bubble. An increase in the amount

Microeconomic reforms, structural changes and the introduction of new technologies altered the level of production and consumption in the manufacturing sector in the late 1980’s and 1990’s. The textile, footwear, clothing and motor vehicle industries were dramatically affected by these reforms and many jobs were lost.

How and why is the housing in Australia growing rapidly and how effective are the government ' s policies to control it?

Meanwhile the current median age for any male or female in Toowoomba is currently at 36 years old, in the upcoming two decades this is expected to rise to 40 years for throughout the population. Understandably this has created a consumer “mind-shift” in demanding for increasing the educational and serviceable sectors rather than actually wanting to expand the working force at all, completely changing the market’s landscape in the Toowoomba and its surrounding states, inducing foreign and national private service sectors to practically invade the local market, eventually diluting it with non-local working force that may not be tempted to remain in Toowoomba in the unforeseeable

In 2011, 20.7% of dwellings in Sydney were classified as high density. Australian cities are facing a number of challenges, including a significant growth in population, growing housing affordability crisis, a greater concern for environmental issues, transport and urban infrastructure.

The provision of health and education services is greatest in the large urban centres in Australia and least in the remote rural centres. As large businesses, including banks, rationalise many of their operations to maximise profits, they close down some of the rural outlets, which leads to a widening of the divide between rural and urban Australia.

As a result of this economic drive, an influence was evident on the spatial economic makeup of Sydney. The unemployment ‘map’ of the city was distributed into two opposing fragments, illustrative of contemporaneous social geography. The highest rates of unemployment were marked in the western and south-western suburbs, while the lowest rates occupied the northern suburbs. In place of this, the service sector, specifically finance, business, retail, community service, professional, and wholesale, sprouted. However, this was not sufficient to counterbalance the unemployment rates. In 1996, the services industry comprised a large 40% of employment, a step up from just 24% in 1971 (Fagan & Webber 1999), of which was concentrating in the inner city and neighbouring regions (Forster 2006). In observation of these dynamics, the extent to which the urban layout of progressive producer services and the additional locations of corporate headquarters have been altered by the forces of globalisation is evident.

Unemployment is recognised as one of the most challenging social problems currently facing Australia. In the last two decades and more recently with the global recession high levels of unemployment have become an established feature of the South Australian social and economic landscape, with young people aged 15 to 24 years among those hardest hit by unemployment.

Changes in the pattern of employment will have implications upon where and how people live, upon educational requirements, and consequently upon the kinds of organizations that will be important to society. Industrialization created the need for semiskilled worker who could be trained in a few weeks to perform the routine tasks attending machines. The service economy has caused a shift to white collar occupations in health, education, and government. For the first time in the history of industrial society, the number of white-collar workers (professionals; managers; officials; proprietors, clerical kindred, and sales workers) exceeded the number of blue-collar workers (craftsmen and foremen; operatives; and laborers) and the gap is widening. The most interesting growth has been in the managerial and professional-technical fields.